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What's the Project

 Hey All, My name's Al and I'm looking for art help. I'm an
IT professional during the day and in my spare time work on electronics
projects. With the help of a few friends, we're launching a hardware product
call PIXEL dedicated to displaying Pixel Art on an LED display. 

 The cool thing about this product is that unlike traditional
LED projects, no coding or wiring up circuits is required, you simply set the
art (animations too) from your Android device. 
The hardware features a 32x32 RGB LED matrix meaning each LED equals 1
pixel for a resolution of 32x32. More info on PIXEL at
http://ledpixelart.com

 The product is in need of some Pixel art for the launch.
That's where you come in. Here's a few sample images to give you a feel for how
pixel art looks on the product.

 It can also play animated gifs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf57_EKhH-M&feature=youtu.be&t=1m16s 
 What's Needed

 In terms of the style of pixel art needed, we're open, the
idea is to feature a few Pixel Artists as part of the product launch. The main
constraint is the art work needs to display well on the 32x32 resolution
display, thus the images need to be 32px by 32px. The art does not need to be
new and can be existing work but does need to follow a common artistic
style/portfolio and of course have originated from you. Note that images larger
than 32x32 up to say 64x64 still will display fine when downscaled, just
depends on the amount of detail in the image. A minimum of 50 still images will
be needed with bonus points for more. Images should be in 32x32 resolution in
PNG format with transparent backgrounds. If you have a few animated GIFs, that
would also be great and those would be added to the PIXEL animate app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ioiomint.pixelanimate&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5pb2lvbWludC5waXhlbGFuaW1hdGUiXQ..

 What you’ll get

 $100 bucks plus recognition. Your art will get it’s own
Android app to go along with Pixel's existing apps
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ledpixelart. Your name and
art work will also be featured in the product launch on Kickstarter.

 When

The Kickstarter launch is planned for roughly January 2nd so
we'd need the art work sometime prior to that.

 Here's a closer look at the underlying hardware for anyone
interested

http://youtu.be/m7FC4oq5nus?t=4m19s

 Contact Information

 You can reach me at alinke@yahoo.com. Shoot me some examples
of your work and we can go from there. Thanks for looking.

Best,

 Al

About Me
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/al-linke/0/687/38

Edited by alinke - 25 December 2012 at 9:15pm

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alinke Seaman Joined: 25 December 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Topic: [PAID] - Art Needed for Hardware LED Product Posted: 25 December 2012 at 9:15pm
	What's the Project Hey All, My name's Al and I'm looking for art help. I'm an IT professional during the day and in my spare time work on electronics projects. With the help of a few friends, we're launching a hardware product call PIXEL dedicated to displaying Pixel Art on an LED display. The cool thing about this product is that unlike traditional LED projects, no coding or wiring up circuits is required, you simply set the art (animations too) from your Android device. The hardware features a 32x32 RGB LED matrix meaning each LED equals 1 pixel for a resolution of 32x32. More info on PIXEL at http://ledpixelart.com The product is in need of some Pixel art for the launch. That's where you come in. Here's a few sample images to give you a feel for how pixel art looks on the product. It can also play animated gifs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf57_EKhH-M&feature=youtu.be&t=1m16s What's Needed In terms of the style of pixel art needed, we're open, the idea is to feature a few Pixel Artists as part of the product launch. The main constraint is the art work needs to display well on the 32x32 resolution display, thus the images need to be 32px by 32px. The art does not need to be new and can be existing work but does need to follow a common artistic style/portfolio and of course have originated from you. Note that images larger than 32x32 up to say 64x64 still will display fine when downscaled, just depends on the amount of detail in the image. A minimum of 50 still images will be needed with bonus points for more. Images should be in 32x32 resolution in PNG format with transparent backgrounds. If you have a few animated GIFs, that would also be great and those would be added to the PIXEL animate app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ioiomint.pixelanimate&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5pb2lvbWludC5waXhlbGFuaW1hdGUiXQ.. What you’ll get $100 bucks plus recognition. Your art will get it’s own Android app to go along with Pixel's existing apps https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ledpixelart. Your name and art work will also be featured in the product launch on Kickstarter. When The Kickstarter launch is planned for roughly January 2nd so we'd need the art work sometime prior to that. Here's a closer look at the underlying hardware for anyone interested http://youtu.be/m7FC4oq5nus?t=4m19s Contact Information You can reach me at alinke@yahoo.com. Shoot me some examples of your work and we can go from there. Thanks for looking. Best, Al About Me http://www.linkedin.com/pub/al-linke/0/687/38 Edited by alinke - 25 December 2012 at 9:15pm
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alinke Seaman Joined: 25 December 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 08 January 2013 at 10:04pm
	Hey All, just a follow-up on this one, got some really good replies, you can see some of the pixel artists that were selected in this product video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WBvGJEouzmE I do have one more pixel artist slot open for someone who can do some compelling animations, they'd need to be on par with the work from Pixel PileDriver here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgBDf8d-x1U. PIXEL is being marketed as an art display. The idea for the animations is to be fluid and smooth, ambient things that just run in the background. Nothing jerky or rigid / in your face. In terms of the actual content, it should be "artsy". Knowing this is a wide definition, I'm open and would like to leave it per your artistic freedom to propose some themes. The animations should be 32px by 32 px, roughly 10 frames per second. They must loop where the loop transition must be continuous and not look rigid/jerky during the loop. Here's some more examples http://ledpixelart.com/animation-examples.html You'll notice the color are all high contrast because as it turns out, low contract colors do not display well on the LEDs. Here's some do's and don'ts guidance when working with the LEDs http://ledpixelart.com/content_guidelines.html Depending on the length of animations, between 15 and 20 animations would be needed. The deadline is by February 11th, 2013. For your troubles, you'd receive one fully assembled PIXEL LED pixel art display (going for $199 on KickStarter, eventually the retail price will be closer to $249) + you'd be featured on http://ledpixelart.com as a featured pixel artist. In the event the KickStarter doesn't get funded, you'll receive $199 via Paypal. It's got a good shot to get funded though as within 8 hours of the KickStarter launch, the project is sitting at 46% funded. Drop me a note if you're interested along with a sample at alinke@yahoo.com. KickStarter here for anyone interested http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/996412530/pixel-interactive-led-art?ref=category Best, Al Edited by alinke - 08 January 2013 at 11:10pm
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